Get the TV and try to make her feel guilty that you couldn't buy the K7 so that she buys you one, then you're both happy
Or doesn't that work any more?

Barrie I'm no not a total rookie with auto sport photography I've done it before but never at dark, it probably means that I would need to open the lens what more and use some higher ISO to keep the correct exposure with the best shutterspeed.

The light trials are some creative shots like this, just for fun:



I use a monopod because I found that I can pan better with that and get sharper photos since I move the camera less.
I've never tried to pan with my tripod, I've a 3 way head on that and I believe that's the best one for sport so could try it out.

Set your camera white balance to tungsten that should clear the blue cast I believe or I've the colour temperatures wrong in my head...

Glad to hear things have sorted out perfectly for you, nice start of the year.

I don't believe so, and even during the day I use a monopod so it's a question now if I need to extra stability of the tripod.

The shutterspeeds need to remain the same but with a tripod I can try some longer shutterspeed to get some light trials (wrong word I believe) but that's only for fun.

Going to an endurance race tomorrow... yeah it's freezing cold here -3°C during the day and they go on till night brrrrr.

Okay cold is not a problem have some but shooting an auto race at dark is, I've never done that before and would like some tips and gear suggestions.

Will probably only take the DA*50-135 with me if not suggested differently.
I've a monopod and a tripod, normally I only take the mono with me but I'm now thinking of taking the tripod with me instead, is this wise or is the mono better?

The motto, if it doesn't hurt you it doesn't hurt the camera

Very nice about the Yongnuo but this a Lumopro topic

No that's not true because you've a 4 GiB minus 1 byte file size limit because of the file system format, since we use FAT.

SDXC will come this spring and they get exFAT as standard but I wonder how well that is going to be support. exFAT has a file size limit of 64 ZiB (512 TiB recommended max) so we can use that for a long time
To be honest I've no idea why they didn't make the current models camera SDXC ready since then you could use exFAT also with SDHC cards and then you could really fill them up, which means your max film time is the card size limit.
Probably isn't really useful but it looks interesting in the specs.


ps. Gib, Tib, Zib seems to be the standard for binary these days, the "i" indicates that.
So:
GiB = GB
TiB = TB
ZiB = ZB

Than it looks like your camera is quite a bit off, get it to the shop and see what they can do.

There is a Russian mod to set it into "service mode" sorry I forgot the name but it's something like that.
It allows you to make adjustments to the camera you can't normally do for the reason you can screw it up.
On of the options is AF adjustment of the AF sensor, that might do the trick most likely but it's all at your own risk so I wouldn't do it since you got warranty on the camera of course.